Fan Forum - View Single Post - New Request Guidelines, FAQ & Campaign Thread Guide

***L i N d $ @ y*** · 01-02-2017, 09:05 PM

The Requests System here at Fan Forum is designed to allow people to vote for new forums that they want added here. Everything comes down to one basic rule:

Any submitted request must have an active campaign thread on the Requests board. If a campaign thread goes for more than 7 days (168 Hours) without a post, it's not considered to be an active campaign thread. You are allowed to double post to prevent the campaign from exceeding this time frame.

Requests Guidelines

How to Vote

Please only vote for a new forum if you plan to post there when it gets added.
Don't trade votes, get your friends to vote or use a different account to vote.
Please don't start duplicate campaign threads at other boards here at Fan Forum.

Campaigning

Don't link to other campaigns in a campaign thread even if they may be related. Campaigns must remain separate even if they're for two different celebrities on the same television show.
You can campaign for boards that you want added outside of Fan Forum.
Private Messages reminding/asking people to vote can be sent out to posters whose names are listed on the campaign thread once a month.
People can ask not to be sent reminders. If someone asks not to be contacted, please keep track of it on the campaign thread or somewhere else.
It's not necessary to start a new campaign thread once the thread reaches 300 posts. Campaign threads on this board are allowed to remain open no matter how many posts they have so that everything is kept in the same place.
You don't have to be listed in the Campaign thread for your vote to count, but it can really help your campaign if you know who to contact every month to get the votes you need for your request to be added here.

Submitting a Request

Members must have at least 500 posts to submit a forum request or start a campaign thread.
Once a forum request is submitted it cannot be changed to another forum request. Any submission shown as edited will not be accepted.
Individual members can only request one forum a month.

General

Members must have more than 60 posts to vote for a forum request.
We run one regular poll here every month. This poll is a combined poll that includes Celebrities, Music Artists, Special Requests, and Television Shows. The minimum number of requests for this combined poll to run is 10. The maximum number of requests that can be in this combined poll is 30. This poll is a multiple choice poll, and people will be allowed to vote for up to 3 requests in this poll, depending on the number submitted.
The poll results are shown in the form of a graph so that people can see what request is "winning" but not see the number of votes each request has. This has been done so the Requests Managers can look at the number of votes that each request received and decide if boards can be added, and the decision to add boards will be at the discretion of the Requests Managers.
After the polls have closed, Johnnie will announce which request has won the poll and also post what place the forum requests in the poll came in, going from the requests that had the most votes to the requests that had the least votes without indicating how many votes each request received. Please note that any submission that gets 10 votes or less may be added to the ineligible requests listing for the following 3 months. In those cases, an alternate request will be used in the order they become alternate requests to replace the ineligible requests on the poll. These requests will be listed in red at the bottom of the poll results. The current list of ineligible requests can be found in the opening post of the submission thread.
In general, one board will be added each month depending on the number of votes for the leading requests and we will keep the option open to possibly add a second or third board each month depending on how many votes the requests received.
We will review the number of votes that each request received and decide which boards to add. If none of the requests have enough votes, we may decide not to add any boards in a given month, so it's very important that people vote for the boards that they want added.

Added Boards

New boards will be added into the New Forums Category for 3 months and a weekly post count is done for the boards in that category. A new board must have a minimum of 105 posts a week during its trial period. Any board that fails to meet this requirement four times during its trial period will be closed and moved into the Closed Forums Category.
Boards in the New Forums category will be moved into their permanent categories after they successfully complete their trial period.
Anyone is free to start a thread on a new forum when it's time to do so. 'Claiming' threads before a board is added is not allowed.
Please note that once a board is added it will require permanent moderators. If no one steps up to be a leader for one of our forums, then it may mean that there isn’t enough sustained interest to keep that board open and the board may be subject to closure. Please don’t submit moderator applications until a Moderator Opening Announcement has been posted on the board.

New TV Shows

We will also have special TV polls for television shows that will be premiering throughout the year. These polls will also be multiple choice polls. The winners of these polls will be placed in the New Forums category, and we won't start the trial period for these forums until the television shows have actually aired and the shows have been allowed to build an audience here.
The polls for new television shows (Fall, Mid-Season and Summer shows) are done outside of the normal campaign system here, meaning that you don't need to have Campaign threads for the shows in these polls. If you do have a campaign thread for one of these shows however, the show will be eligible for the regular poll as well.

Important Note

If you have a complaint, issue or question about some of the decisions made on this board, please send Johnnie or Lindsay a Private Message. Please do not discuss it publicly.
Due to the unique nature of this board, and for continuity purposes, and to ensure that policies are accurately communicated, it would be best to leave questions for the mods of this board to answer.